AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Graphics Card
Specifications
- Generation
- Southern Islands
- GPU model
- Tahiti
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Base clock
- 1000 MHz
- Memory size
- 3 GB
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- Release date
- Jun 22nd, 2012
Graphics Processor
- GPU model
- Tahiti
- GPU variant
- Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)
- Architecture
- GCN 1.0
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Manufacturing process
- 28 nm
- Number of transistors
- 4,313 million
- Die size
- 352 mm²
Graphics Card
- Release date
- Jun 22nd, 2012
- Generation
- Southern Islands
- Production
- End-of-life
- Launch price
- 499 USD
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Reviews
- 191 in our database
- Predecessor
- Northern Islands
- Successor
- Sea Islands
Clocks
- Base clock
- 1000 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1050 MHz
- Memory clock
- 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective
Memory Configuration
- Memory size
- 3 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Memory bus width
- 384 bit
- Bandwidth
- 288.0 GB/s
Render Configuration
- Shading units
- 2048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- Compute units
- 32
- Cache L1
- 16 KB (per CU)
- Cache L2
- 768 KB
Performance
- Pixel rate
- 33.60 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 134.4 GTexel/s
- FP32 (float) performance
- 4.301 TFLOPS
- FP64 (double) performance
- 1,075 GFLOPS (1:4)
Dimensions & Outputs
- Slot width
- Dual-slot
- Length
- 275 mm 10.8 inches
- Width
- 111 mm 4.4 inches
- Height
- 38 mm 1.5 inches
- TDP
- 300 W
- Suggested PSU
- 700 W
- Outputs
- 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
- Board number
- C386-37
API Support & Features
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- Shader model
- 5.1
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Benchmark & Performance
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